Man, I'm enjoying playing assault since no one in my team of friends plays it, but I'm not exactly sure I'm doing it right. I'm doing well in objective points, but I feel like I should be able to protect my medic better and it's too hard to track with the autocannon or grenade launcher.
I keep saying that they really should pay more attention when pilfering stuff from TF2.
I want a better UI that tells me the status of my robo gear other than the incredibly tiny health bars above the sentry icon in the action bar.
I also want to know when my stuff is actually under attack/destroyed.
This is the kind of stuff that makes TF2 polished.
I wish they had Quake 3 style hit sounds, it's really hard to keep track of which fucker you're hitting (if anyone) with the random weapon spread, latency and all the shiny flashy shit going on.
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Man. Two robos with complementing loadouts = awesome.
I had sensor, power station and rocket turret. Other guy had heal station, autocannon and lockdown drone.
My rocket turret covered the point, his autocannon and drone ganked any recons trying to take us out.
Saw my turret do 1700 damage per hit while repair-buffed, and thanks to the power station I can keep doing that for close to 30 seconds before I run out of energy.
yeah, we had a robotics duo in AvA and it was just nasty how the defenders attention completely diverted to them while the rest of us snuck in through the back
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
At one point around 9:30pm CST we had 4 SF's running in the alliance. I was in the "ragtag" final group and we got absolutely rolled by CTC in our first outing, but their avg level on their SF was probably 20, they had several above 25 and one at 30. We regrouped and successfully defended a hex and then attacked and won a hex. Not bad for being the red headed step-team. It was a lot of fun all in all.
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
It was supremely awesome times, I'm looking forward to more. I haven't had that much fun in a multiplayer game in a long time. I only worry that future sessions of Global Agenda will fail to match up to that high quality experience.
Which is why the four of us must play together again soon!
Man. Two robos with complementing loadouts = awesome.
I had sensor, power station and rocket turret. Other guy had heal station, autocannon and lockdown drone.
My rocket turret covered the point, his autocannon and drone ganked any recons trying to take us out.
Saw my turret do 1700 damage per hit while repair-buffed, and thanks to the power station I can keep doing that for close to 30 seconds before I run out of energy.
To be fair, you can keep it going forever, basically, if you just cut off the repairing for a second after the rocket hits. You only need to be boosting it when it explodes on a man, not as it's firing.
Ok, so another noob question. While AvA is fun and all, I'm trying to get a sense of the bigger picture. What benefits do we gain from controlling territory? Information coming out of HiRez if fairly vague, they mention resources and factories and research labs but I'm having a hard time figuring out how that translates into benefits for us on the Alliance level, the Agency level and yes, the Individual Player. Can anyone provide a thumbnail of how that all works? Since most of the control mechanism for all of that seems to be with the leadership, none of it is visible to us peons that I can find, so I'm interested in how it all gets applied. If I'm going to be spending $14/month on this thing, I'd like to know what I'm spending it on.
Are you poison spec medic or something? I get an average of about 8.6k healing a minute on most reasonably coordinated games as a heal spec. Dont ask me how this is possible, but this is what it tells me at end games.
You know what i'd like to see come out of the AvA too? Is to have our own personal base to hang out in, alliance only, with all our factories and such available and we can coordinate our AvA and PVP stuff and our groups from. I think that would be boss just so it at least shows more than some stars on a map that we are actually achieving something.
You'd think that by level 12 people would understand as early as the medsec PvE missions that standing still in front of 5 androids and delivering fire is going to end poorly for them, even if they have two medics healing them. Yet again and again, that's what I run across when healing these pug things. It's staggering how dumb people are, and how much they rely on the old standby of blaming the healer.
I mean, each android does about 300 dps in a medsec mission. I heal at a rate of 450 hps when using the biofeedback's alt fire -- which chews up 140 power pool in about 10 seconds, mind -- and apparently I'm supposed to heal through five androids or two helots or a barrage of Sentinel missiles...
One pretty cool thing about GA is the access it gives you on their web portal for stats. Here's your medic, Elimination
And your heal rate is about 600/min higher than mine. I look forward to them expanding this to include AvA stuff.
Shit, didn't realize the site had deeper stats. I want to look at a few of the CTC guys we went up against.
edit: You're about 600/min better than I am too, Elim, but I'm averaging a bit more damage while still being heal spec, so I blame my desire to poison.
To be fair, you can keep it going forever, basically, if you just cut off the repairing for a second after the rocket hits. You only need to be boosting it when it explodes on a man, not as it's firing.
To be fair, that is what I'm doing. But I can keep it up for 30 seconds if some mans are shootin' mah turret and I need to repair it.
Ok, so another noob question. While AvA is fun and all, I'm trying to get a sense of the bigger picture. What benefits do we gain from controlling territory? Information coming out of HiRez if fairly vague, they mention resources and factories and research labs but I'm having a hard time figuring out how that translates into benefits for us on the Alliance level, the Agency level and yes, the Individual Player. Can anyone provide a thumbnail of how that all works? Since most of the control mechanism for all of that seems to be with the leadership, none of it is visible to us peons that I can find, so I'm interested in how it all gets applied. If I'm going to be spending $14/month on this thing, I'd like to know what I'm spending it on.
Agencies gain resources, research blueprints and manufacture weapons for use in more AvA, using the three types of zones. That in itself doesn't add anything new to the game, you're capturing territory so you can buy things to be better at capturing territory.
The only external factor they have so far is that an agency (or maybe alliance, I forget which) that has abso-fuckinglutely dominated a zone by fulfilling certain objectives can claim victory over the entire zone. This is expected to take time measured in weeks or months. When you completely claim victory over a zone, you are rewarded with a bunch of unique weapons/armor/goodies and possibly have your agency/alliance name written into the lore/implemented as the name of a zone or mission map.
Thanks Darkewolfe, that helps, although I think they'll probably have to find a bigger carrot if the rewards for AvA are as limited as you've described. I guess I have a month to see how it plays out to decide.
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
It was supremely awesome times, I'm looking forward to more. I haven't had that much fun in a multiplayer game in a long time. I only worry that future sessions of Global Agenda will fail to match up to that high quality experience.
Which is why the four of us must play together again soon!
I believe I was in that group last night too? Bartlebe, the explosives/grenade assault?
Not to speak for Darkewolfe, but I believe it's from http://www.agendatags.com/. I've been trying to get mine started, but the "feed" has to be up, and it never is when I check the site.
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
It was supremely awesome times, I'm looking forward to more. I haven't had that much fun in a multiplayer game in a long time. I only worry that future sessions of Global Agenda will fail to match up to that high quality experience.
Which is why the four of us must play together again soon!
I believe I was in that group last night too? Bartlebe, the explosives/grenade assault?
You are probably right about that particular match CamCam is mentioning, I show you in a match with elim and camcam. CamCam, elim, prof and I grouped up later in the evening, and we had a very similair payload experience, but it's possible it was even later and I'm confusing when and who was there.
Last night was my first night grouping with KCHS, but I look forward to many more, and Elimination, you rock on the healing.
I played a PvP payload map with Elimination and two other guys last night. Its amazing when you get past the final checkpoint and everyone helps push the payload to the final node.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
It was supremely awesome times, I'm looking forward to more. I haven't had that much fun in a multiplayer game in a long time. I only worry that future sessions of Global Agenda will fail to match up to that high quality experience.
Which is why the four of us must play together again soon!
I believe I was in that group last night too? Bartlebe, the explosives/grenade assault?
You are probably right about that particular match CamCam is mentioning, I show you in a match with elim and camcam. CamCam, elim, prof and I grouped up later in the evening, and we had a very similair payload experience, but it's possible it was even later and I'm confusing when and who was there.
Last night was my first night grouping with KCHS, but I look forward to many more, and Elimination, you rock on the healing.
I really wanted to like the assault, and it was ok at times, but I never felt like I was able to do anything them.
Now I'm trying out the medic and have to say, it's pretty awesome. I've had a few really good games where I have found an assault that isn't trying to snipe. Even if it's not an assault I'm healing things still seem to get done much easier than when I've tried the robo/assault.
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CTC can suck it when we catch up in level! bahahahahah
I want a better UI that tells me the status of my robo gear other than the incredibly tiny health bars above the sentry icon in the action bar.
I also want to know when my stuff is actually under attack/destroyed.
This is the kind of stuff that makes TF2 polished.
usually has a 10 or a 15 under it
flipping amazing games last night gentlemen. Such great teamwork and communication, that level where we roof hopped from a to b to a was just awesome.
Great to finally get in and play with some KCHS. I look forward to it much. Think I got like 3 1/2 levels playing with you guys last night.
Oh yea, and that last payload win we had, pushing back from the ramp to the last point, was so damn awesome.
I had sensor, power station and rocket turret. Other guy had heal station, autocannon and lockdown drone.
My rocket turret covered the point, his autocannon and drone ganked any recons trying to take us out.
Saw my turret do 1700 damage per hit while repair-buffed, and thanks to the power station I can keep doing that for close to 30 seconds before I run out of energy.
Yea I remember that match CamCam, the 4 of us had a couple really good matches together.
Later on we also had some good games with -sola-scriptura and Nevaar. Really good times last night all in all.
Ah well, tiny studio etc. I suppose they'll get around to it.
Territory upkeep is paid per zone when the zone unlocks.
Will be around tonight probably organizing attack/defend for the late zones. If we could get 2+ strike teams again that would be amazing
It was supremely awesome times, I'm looking forward to more. I haven't had that much fun in a multiplayer game in a long time. I only worry that future sessions of Global Agenda will fail to match up to that high quality experience.
Which is why the four of us must play together again soon!
To be fair, you did get more kills than me on most missions except for the one you made this bet on.
To be fair, this is something they added in the last, like, week. A slash command is much easier to implement than a change to the UI.
To be fair, you can keep it going forever, basically, if you just cut off the repairing for a second after the rocket hits. You only need to be boosting it when it explodes on a man, not as it's firing.
Are you poison spec medic or something? I get an average of about 8.6k healing a minute on most reasonably coordinated games as a heal spec. Dont ask me how this is possible, but this is what it tells me at end games.
You know what i'd like to see come out of the AvA too? Is to have our own personal base to hang out in, alliance only, with all our factories and such available and we can coordinate our AvA and PVP stuff and our groups from. I think that would be boss just so it at least shows more than some stars on a map that we are actually achieving something.
I mean, each android does about 300 dps in a medsec mission. I heal at a rate of 450 hps when using the biofeedback's alt fire -- which chews up 140 power pool in about 10 seconds, mind -- and apparently I'm supposed to heal through five androids or two helots or a barrage of Sentinel missiles...
Ugh.
And your heal rate is about 600/min higher than mine.
Game name is Cooler and steam tag is cooler265.
Shit, didn't realize the site had deeper stats. I want to look at a few of the CTC guys we went up against.
edit: You're about 600/min better than I am too, Elim, but I'm averaging a bit more damage while still being heal spec, so I blame my desire to poison.
To be fair, that is what I'm doing. But I can keep it up for 30 seconds if some mans are shootin' mah turret and I need to repair it.
Agencies gain resources, research blueprints and manufacture weapons for use in more AvA, using the three types of zones. That in itself doesn't add anything new to the game, you're capturing territory so you can buy things to be better at capturing territory.
The only external factor they have so far is that an agency (or maybe alliance, I forget which) that has abso-fuckinglutely dominated a zone by fulfilling certain objectives can claim victory over the entire zone. This is expected to take time measured in weeks or months. When you completely claim victory over a zone, you are rewarded with a bunch of unique weapons/armor/goodies and possibly have your agency/alliance name written into the lore/implemented as the name of a zone or mission map.
I like that stats site! it shows I am not doing bad compared to other medics! Exarjade
Now I just need to get more free time to play GA more!
I believe I was in that group last night too? Bartlebe, the explosives/grenade assault?
You are probably right about that particular match CamCam is mentioning, I show you in a match with elim and camcam. CamCam, elim, prof and I grouped up later in the evening, and we had a very similair payload experience, but it's possible it was even later and I'm confusing when and who was there.
Last night was my first night grouping with KCHS, but I look forward to many more, and Elimination, you rock on the healing.
That match was indeed glorious
Feed is currently up if you want to try to get your sigs.
Hell yes it was.
Also holy shit, mission stats!
EDIT: Oh man, my defense score. I love being a tank!
Now I'm trying out the medic and have to say, it's pretty awesome. I've had a few really good games where I have found an assault that isn't trying to snipe. Even if it's not an assault I'm healing things still seem to get done much easier than when I've tried the robo/assault.